Ryan Swindall

Ryan Swindall is a Senior Associate based in Quinn Emanuel's Atlanta office, where he specializes in complex commercial litigation and antitrust matters.

From the complaint on, Ryan represented plaintiffs LIV Golf, Inc. and professional golfers in an antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, Inc. alleging monopolization in the markets for the services of professional golfers and the promotion of elite professional golf events, and an agreement to eliminate competition in those markets.

Since then, Ryan has represented clients in civil and criminal antitrust investigations — including DOJ investigations involving grand jury proceedings — and several multi-district antitrust litigations with putative classes seeking billions of dollars. These cases involve a range of allegedly anticompetitive conduct, such as market allocation, price fixing, wage fixing, and bid rigging. Ryan has also responded to Civil Investigative Demands, worked on antitrust class action litigation across multiple federal circuits, and advised clients on antitrust claims involving market power analyses in emerging industries, unfair competition by sporting associations, and potential Section 2 monopolization claims.

Ryan also co-authored a chapter of a handbook published by the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section. This handbook intricately addresses application of the Rule of Reason, a core principle of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (the foundation of American antitrust law).

Beyond antitrust, Ryan has consistently demonstrated his ability to represent both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes cases across a range of subject matters. Ryan has represented a leading AI company in an intellectual property and trade practices dispute against a competitor, one of the largest e-commerce companies in Asia in employment litigation in federal court, and clients in regulatory disputes before federal agencies including the Consumer Product Safety Commission and in actions brought by state attorneys general. He has also sought an injunction against Churchill Downs permitting entry of his client's horses into the Kentucky Derby, secured a pre-suit settlement against one of the largest sports icons in the world, litigated a multi-billion dollar dispute involving the construction of two nuclear units at an electric generating plant, pursued claims against a company seller who allegedly fraudulently inflated its revenue by tens of millions of dollars, and brought an action against a private equity fund that failed to pay millions of dollars in incentive payments to an executive of one of the fund's portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Ryan clerked for the Honorable Lisa Godbey Wood, United States District Court Judge for the Southern District of Georgia. And he argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.